Fund managers have branded the German regulators ban on naked short selling of various securities in equity and fixed income markets as political posturing rather than an effective remedy to volatility.
BaFin said it introduced the ban due to "the extraordinary volatility of debt securities of countries from the eurozone". Alongside 10 leading financial shares, it included eurozone sovereign bonds...
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